Thesaurus results for FOLKTALE

folktale

noun

as in tale

a traditional description of imaginary events circulated orally among a people West African folktales that continue to be passed from generation to generation through storytelling

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Recent Examples of folktale Below, see the streamer’s list of authors to watch, from contemporary folktales and family dramas to dark fantasy and spicy time travel tales. —

Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025 To keep her on track, Hero tells Cherry stories each night, loosely adapting the framework of the classic collection of Arabic folktales One Thousand and One Nights. —

Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025 Atmospheric principles and folktales, spirit and substance, opposites and inversions. —

Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025 The story centered on a young Palestinian man living in Jerusalem who must save his family after a Ghouleh, a female demon from his grandmother’s folktales, arrive in his town and threatens his home. —

Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for folktale

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Jude relocates this tale of troubled conscience to present-day Cluj-Napoca, in Transylvania, and subjects it to a corrosively cynical twist.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
My confidence was further bolstered when Zenker informed me about Beau Miles, an adventure filmmaker known for documenting his self-experiments, who, back in 2020, when an entirely different disaster descended upon us, ate only beans for 40 days (191 cans to be exact)—and lived to tell the tale.

— Ayana Underwood, Outside, 27 Mar. 2026